Premium grade flooring is all we can say about the wood floors manufactured by Country Flooring. With better than average lengths and superior grading standards Country Flooring is our favorite manufacturer of quality hardwood floors.

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The flooring is tongue and groove on all 4 sides ensuring the best installation possible. (end matched)Minimum lengths on all products of 15” compared to the industry standard of 9” for other manufacturers makes for a faster installation as well as a more aesthetically appealing look. The edges are micro-beveled with the smallest micro bevel in the industry to protect the edges of the flooring during the installation.

The grading of Country Wood Flooring is Simple.

Prime Grade= Clear / Select and Better - For a clean, uniform look.Select Grade = Primarily Prime grade material with a small amount of variation.Standard Grade = Select and #1 mix.(Allows for color variation, and knots) - For a natural looking floor that contains natural characteristics.Country Grade = Will contain a mixture of all grades, (allows for high degrees of color variation and knots) Will not contain open hole knots - nearly 100% usable material.

Maple (Acer spp.) contains about 120 species native to Asia [16], North America [13Mexico and Guatemala [1], and the European/Mediterranean region [6], with the rest in Eurasia, Malaysia and northern Africa. The Maples can be separated into two groups based on the ray widths of their microscopic anatomy, the soft maple group and the hard maple group. Species within each group look alike microscopically.

Color Range:

The sapwood of the maples is commonly white with a slight reddish-brown tinge; the heartwood is light reddish brown, but sometimes is considerably darker.

Color Change:

moderate

Hardness:

Hard Maple has a Janka hardness rating of 1450 compared to 1260 for Red Oak.

Working Properties: The wood turns well, is harder to work than softer woods, and has high nail-holding ability. It stains and polishes well, but is intermediate in gluing.

Northern Hard Maple is a dense, strong, remarkably hard and supremely durable product. Offering a wide range of uses and color possibilities, Northern Hard Maple is close-grained, hard-fibered, free from slivering and splintering, and polishes well under friction. When given a clear finish its natural beauty stands out. Because wood is a natural product, it is subject to color variations resulting from differing growing conditions. The color of maple heartwood is brownish — the sapwood is much lighter.

Hard maple has an unusual ability to resist pointed pressure without abrasion. It is easily covered with attractive finishes.

Wood flooring is quickly regaining a strong market share in the floor covering industry. More and more homeowners and commercial tenants are turning to the natural beauty of wood for aesthetic and health benefits. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is currently working to regulate indoor air quality. According to their list of poor air quality sources, carpeting, among many other sources inside the home and office, contributes to poor air quality due to its makeup of alcohols, formaldehyde, 4-methylethyl-benzene, 4-phenylcyclohexene, and styrene.

Within the selection of wood floors, consumer preferences are shifting toward lighter colored woods. Northern hard maple is regarded as a premium specie among domestic hardwoods. Northern hard maple is dense, strong, remarkably hard and extremely durable. Its unique character offers a wide range of uses and a natural lighter color that complements all home furnishings from ultra contemporary to country decor. The quality of this premium hardwood begins in the northern forests above the 35th parallel where shorter growing seasons and longer winters produce a densely-grained maple with rich, consistent color and fewer imperfections.

B. Unfinished and factory-finished solid plank should be installed perpendicular to the joists or on a diagonal for any single layer subfloor. (Exception: Over diagonal, solid subfloor boards, install perpendicular to joists or subfloor direction.)

C. When ¾" solid plank flooring is laid parallel with the floor joists, follow one of these two steps:

2. Or brace between truss/joists in accordance with the truss/joist manufacturer’s recommendations and with local building codes. Some truss/joist systems cannot be cross-braced and still maintain stability.

D. Before installing wood flooring, place an approved vapor retarder. Some examples of acceptable vapor retarders over wood subfloors include:

1. Choose a starting wall according to the most aesthetically or architecturally important elements in the room, taking into consideration fireplaces, doors, cabinets and transitions, as well as the squareness of the room. The starting wall will often be the longest unbroken wall in the room.

2. Snap a working line parallel to the starting wall, allowing ¾” expansion space between the starting wall and the edge of the first strip or plank run.

3. As a general rule, a ¾” expansion space must be left around the perimeter and at all vertical obstructions.

4. Random-width plank is laid out with alternating courses varying by widths. Start with the widest board, then the next width, etc., and repeat the pattern.

5. Lay one row of strip or plank along the entire length of the working line.

6. Top-nail and blind-nail the first row (hand-nail if necessary), using appropriate fasteners. Denser species may require pre-drilling. Each succeeding row should be blind-nailed with the nailing machine wherever possible. At the finishing wall and other obstructions, it may be necessary to blind-nail by hand until top nailing is required.

7. Racking rule of thumb: Stagger end-joints in adjacent rows at least three times the width of the boards, as product allows. Avoid H-joints. (See Figures 1 and 2.)

Figure 1 Stagger End Joints

Figure 2 Avoid “H” Joints

8. To minimize expansion on floors wider than 20 feet, more or less spacing between rows may be needed, depending on geographical area, interior climate control and time of the year.

9. Where spacing is required: Use a washer or removable spacer to leave additional space

every few rows and/or start in center of room and work out to both sides. Do not use

spacers that may cause damage on factory-finished products.

10. Nailing: Blind-nail through the tongue using 1½"-2” fasteners. Use 1½" fasteners with

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